In practice, if you have half a day, start with the fundamentals and ignore everything else on the site. For what it is worth, most the people who write in arrive mid-problem, so each primer works on its own without the rest.
What Permanent Makeup really costs
In short, budgets in Permanent Makeup rarely break where first-timers expect — it is the cost of switching later that catches them out. Put simply, we spell out where the money actually goes in Permanent Makeup, and which corners are harmless to cut. As a rule, a frank Permanent Makeup budget has a line for the follow-up costs — leave it out and the number is fiction.
Realistically, we lay out the trade-offs in Permanent Makeup plainly, so the call comes from your situation rather than somebody else’s enthusiasm.
Should you stick with Permanent Makeup?
Whether Permanent Makeup is worth it depends on the outcome you are after — and that is not a dodge, it is the unvarnished answer. For some most people, Permanent Makeup repays attention many times over; for others the honest answer is “not yet”. Broadly, plenty of visitors do fine without Permanent Makeup; the candid version of this page says so.
Our process
Honestly, everything we publish about Permanent Makeup we test before publishing, and revisit when the ground shifts. In short, where we have not verified something about Permanent Makeup ourselves, we say so plainly instead of bluffing.
Keeping the write-ups fresh
Put simply, we update rather than republish, so links newcomers saved keep working even when the text is rewritten. Older Permanent Makeup walkthroughs get reviewed on a schedule, which is why the date you see means something here.
Also worth a look: Permanent Makeup: a checklist we actually use and Before you spend on Permanent Makeup, read this.